Re: Cache control in trailers?

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From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: "Adrien de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>
Cc: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>; "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" 
<ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Sent: 4/02/2021 10:48:40 am
Subject: Re: Cache control in trailers?

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>Adrien de Croy writes:
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>>  so any policy based on metadata will have to wait until the end to apply
>>  it.  This is not very workable in many cases.
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>Well, if it doesn't work for them, they shouldn't ask for this transmission
>mode then.
>
>Since it will need to be, by definition, hop-by-hop, that's a nobrainer.

why not design a solution that allows both requirements to work?  
Otherwise any intermediary that may want to enforce policy based on 
metadata will have to always down-grade the requests which makes the 
whole exercise less valuable.


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Received on Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:54:37 UTC